Basically makes the case that as a society, we’re better off with smaller cars.
EaglesPDX
The authors of these articles always add this caveat meaning they don’t understand the problem om the solutions.
>That’s where electric vehicles start to perform relatively poorly, since generating the electricity for them still creates pollution.
Utilities offers emissions free electric. Utilities are under same regs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero,
They also assign more GHG to EV mfg which is also bogus since EV’s and batteries are mfgd in new plants which are built to zero net emissions standards.
In this case, the oil company financed study went even further off the deep end assigning a dollar cost to the a fictional number they created for the increase in DEATH and INJURY on the highway.
Only issue is greenhouse gas emissions.
1. EV’s create no more and in most case zero emissions from mfg of car and battery.
2. EV’s have zero emissions driving from day one.
mtomny
If you want to incentivize the purchase of EV’s, it’d be best to eliminate the income cap. EV’s tend to be more expensive than ICE vehicles, so the people we’re trying to target with the incentives are higher than average earners.
m2orris
The tax credit as it stands only allowed the car manufacturers charge more for their EVs.
A better way to have qualified for the tax credit was to reward manufacturers to make cost effective EVs. To get the full $7500, the car purchase price needed to be under $25k and phases out completely above $35k. The purchase price could have started out higher and dropped over time. For example, the first year, $30k for the full credit and no credit above $45k. Each year they would drop purchase price limits by $1k & $1.5k.
By lowering the price of the vehicle, more of the population could afford an EV, which would have translated into more sales. EVs are great daily commuters / local drives where they would have the biggest impact on pollution. The battery technology and EV charging build out is still holding back long distance traveling for the masses.
CryptographerHot4636
Imagine if we cut the DOD budget by 2.5-5% and put it towards ev incentives.
theotherharper
Money is good, more money is better. FILM AT ELEVEN
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I’ll note that their definition of harms includes a lot of things besides just greenhouse gas emissions and climate impact. Full paper [here](https://joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/EVTrade.pdf)
Basically makes the case that as a society, we’re better off with smaller cars.
The authors of these articles always add this caveat meaning they don’t understand the problem om the solutions.
>That’s where electric vehicles start to perform relatively poorly, since generating the electricity for them still creates pollution.
Utilities offers emissions free electric. Utilities are under same regs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero,
They also assign more GHG to EV mfg which is also bogus since EV’s and batteries are mfgd in new plants which are built to zero net emissions standards.
In this case, the oil company financed study went even further off the deep end assigning a dollar cost to the a fictional number they created for the increase in DEATH and INJURY on the highway.
Only issue is greenhouse gas emissions.
1. EV’s create no more and in most case zero emissions from mfg of car and battery.
2. EV’s have zero emissions driving from day one.
If you want to incentivize the purchase of EV’s, it’d be best to eliminate the income cap. EV’s tend to be more expensive than ICE vehicles, so the people we’re trying to target with the incentives are higher than average earners.
The tax credit as it stands only allowed the car manufacturers charge more for their EVs.
A better way to have qualified for the tax credit was to reward manufacturers to make cost effective EVs. To get the full $7500, the car purchase price needed to be under $25k and phases out completely above $35k. The purchase price could have started out higher and dropped over time. For example, the first year, $30k for the full credit and no credit above $45k. Each year they would drop purchase price limits by $1k & $1.5k.
By lowering the price of the vehicle, more of the population could afford an EV, which would have translated into more sales. EVs are great daily commuters / local drives where they would have the biggest impact on pollution. The battery technology and EV charging build out is still holding back long distance traveling for the masses.
Imagine if we cut the DOD budget by 2.5-5% and put it towards ev incentives.
Money is good, more money is better. FILM AT ELEVEN
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